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Telefónica facilities look set to support the expansion of AWS in Latin America.

It was reported in Latin America that Amazon Web Services (AWS) may be using Telefónica’s data centre capabilities in Chile as a means of determining the country’s viability as a future regional data hub for the cloud services company.

In future years, AWS is expected to spend $1bn (EUR860m) on deploying its own facilities in the region, but is currently said to have a partnership with Telefónica for data centre access, and the telco’s 5,000m2 site is considered the best existing data centre in the country (Telefónicawatch, #107).

AWS is said to be considering Argentina and Chile for its Latin America hub, but recent news reports have suggested Chile is the favourite.

Telefónica and AWS unveiled a partnership in May 2018 that will see Telefónica offer access to AWS services to its corporate customer base (Telefónicawatch, #126).

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